If you and Kitty are going to do something — a private Facebook group would probably be better than a Yahoo one. My two cents.

He’ll have to be careful others don’t see that. He may end up with the nickname Dufresne…

My brain read that in Morgan Freeman’s voice, a la Shawshank Redemption.

(I’m a friend of Andy’s, by the way, so he often gets the voiceover treatment in my head.)

Stopping is all part of that going slow idea. Difficult to interrupt the momentum. Even harder to turn around and go back for a stop. Takes a lot of practice but the act does have its own rewards. Just different. Like you say — sweet and sour.

I think the same happens with me. Never thought a lot about it until your comment but it makes sense.

I have learned over the years that if I stop within the first thirty minutes of a ride and take a picture, that sets the tone for the trip. If I push on and miss that stop for some reason my mind gets into the “let”s ride” mind set and for some reason stopping gets harder.

A photographer who rides or a rider who photographs? I always have a camera with me and I do stop here and there whilst a shoot or ride battle rages inside? Sometimes I really have to work at stopping the bike I am so immersed in the movement, however, I am never disappointed when I do pause. The sweet and sour.

I’m not yet sure of my cold weather riding limitations, but do plan to experiment a bit in this area. I’ll let you know how that goes. I’m planning to ride to work this morning and the weather app is currently reading 31°F which might be the coldest I’ve tried so far. (Of course we are only talking a 20 minute commute.)

Getting the BMW perspective sounds great. I’ve enjoyed getting to know Paul a bit at the MotoHang and would get a kick out of tagging along with you both at some point.

A colleague of mine attended this year’s Adobe conference in Las Vegas. She returned with no amazing giveaway items. Perhaps that experiment didn’t go as well as they’d planned?

Reflective pause…. I think that’s a great blog post title. I think I’ll have to steal that! Sort of like the ad slogan, “the pause that refreshes.” Can’t remember if that involved soda pop or cigarettes….